Monday, March 8, 2010

Can immigration reform be good for the economy? Read this excerpt from Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill...

Additionally, advocates charge that immigration reform fits seamlessly with Congress’ jobs agenda and would be a helpful issue for Democrats to take up before the midterm elections.

“Our argument is that immigration reform is going to be what helps the economy,” said Frank Sharry, executive director of the immigration reform group America’s Voice. “It’s not going to solve the economy, but it’s going to create a fair economy at the low end of the labor market.”

My novels in brief

America Libre,House Dividedand Pancho Land imagine a nightmarish, not-too-distant future when tensions between Hispanic separatists and Anglo supremacists ignite an ethnic conflict that leads to an armed insurrection seeking to redraw the borders of the United States. A cautionary tale, The Class H Trilogy is a wake-up call to the dangers of bigotry and extremism in a growing ethnic gulf.

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When I began writing America Libre in 2004, some thought the book’s premise was unrealistic. An uprising by Hispanics? The idea seemed far-fetched, they said. Today, the skeptics are no longer so certain. I posed the nightmare scenario of America Libre as a wake up call to the dangers of extremism - on all sides of this explosive issue. Hispanic immigration is a hotly debated topic today. Yet it is only the tip of the iceberg. Over the next decade, three other factors will prove equally significant. READ MORE